This poem describes night as "a time when a wind full of infinite space gnaws at our faces", and it suggests in its first stanza that "perhaps there remains for us some tree on a hillside, which every day we can take into our vision". A parenthetical aside in Its third stanza describes its addressee's struggles with "huge strange thoughts inside you / going and coming and often staying all night"; that stanza opens by telling of a time when "as you walked under an open window, a (*) violin yielded itself to your hearing". It expresses a wish that "any girl deserted by her beloved" should be inspired by a certain "fierce example of soaring, / objectless love" after asking its addressee "Have you imagined Gaspara Stampa intensely enough?" For 10 points, identify this poem that opens with the
This poem describes night as "a time when a wind full of infinite space gnaws at our faces", and it suggests in its first stanza that "perhaps there remains for us some tree on a hillside, which every day we can take into our vision". A parenthetical aside in Its third stanza describes its addressee's struggles with "huge strange thoughts inside you / going and coming and often staying all night"; that stanza opens by telling of a time when "as you walked under an open window, a (*) violin yielded itself to your hearing". It expresses a wish that "any girl deserted by her beloved" should be inspired by a certain "fierce example of soaring, / objectless love" after asking its addressee "Have you imagined Gaspara Stampa intensely enough?" For 10 points, identify this poem that opens with the line "Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angelic orders?", which begins a Rainer Maria Rilke collection inspired by a castle in Trieste.
This poem describes night as "a time when a wind full of infinite space gnaws at our faces", and it suggests in its first stanza that "perhaps there remains for us some tree on a hillside, which every day we can take into our vision".
the first {Duino Elegy} [accept equivalents like “{die erste Duineser Elegie}”, prompt on “the {Duino Elegies}” or “{die Duineser Elegien}”]